Flying Tiger founder and co-owner Edwards Barham is pictured in this 2001 photo as he prepared to test an automated crop dusting system.

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Flying Tiger Aviation, one of only two major agricultural flying schools in the U.S., will move from Rayville to Morehouse Memorial Airport in Bastrop, where the company will create 21 new jobs.

Company co-owner Mo Rolfs and Kelsey Short of the Louisiana Department of Economic Development made the announcement Monday at the Bastrop airport.

Rolfs said his company, which was founded by co-owner Edwards Barham in 1998, also will invest $847,000 to build 20,000 square feet of hangar space, a 5,000-square-foot maintenance hangar and a 150,000-square-foot expansion of the tarmac. ...